AT&T Expanding 3G Coverage In June – What A Surprise…

May 22, 2008

3G coverage in the US

We’ve just got word that US cellular giant AT&T will be completeing it’s 3G rollout next month by rolling out coverage in six remaining markets; what a conincidence it is that we’re suppost to be getting a 3G iPhone around the same time… As of today, their 3G rollout is around 73% complete.

They went on to say “that it has 3G in 275 markets” and “by year-end, the AT&T 3G network will be available in nearly 350 markets.”

Sounds pretty good to us.

The Germans Love The iPhone

May 21, 2008

German iPhone

According to Deutsche Telekom Chief Executive Rene Obermann, the T-Mobile division has shifted more than 100,000 jesus-phones since the launch in November of 2007. Obermann also mentioned that the iPhone was currently the “most popular multimedia device” and that sales were more than “meeting expectations”.

During the short press conference, Obermann was also asked of the possibility of a 3G iPhone, to which he responded “No comment.” – ah, poo.

3G iPhone Release Date Pretty Much Confirmed

May 20, 2008

Ok, this still isn’t absolutely official, but it may as well be by now.

Sources close to the 3G iPhone launch have told Gizmodo that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th.

Gizmodo just dropped this little gem, which to be honest, isn’t really anything we didn’t suspect already. They continue however and mention that the second-generation iPhone should be avaliable worldwide by the 19th June. That’s pretty fast, but again, nothing we weren’t really expecting.

Dammit Apple, just say it already.

iPhone Dev Camp Returns For A Second Year

It\'s back!

With the release of a brand new SDK, we had saw this coming – and it’s definitely a good thing. iPhoneDevCamp is a non-profit conference for iPhone application developers, and is taking place in San Francisco this August. The idea behind the event is for like-minded application developers to meet up and share ideas, discuss best practises when developing for the phone, and push the boundaries of Apples little device.

The first iPhoneDevCamp was all the way back last July, just a few weeks after the device was released. There was no SDK then, nor were there any (hacked) 3rd party applications, so the conference was entirely based on developing web based applications; things have now changed, and the target of the conference will now primarily be the SDK, though web-based applications will still be discussed.

Apple Looking For Over-The-Air Downloads For 3G iPhone

A kinda-fresh new rumour has surfaced recently, and it’s quite an interesting one at that. Apparently, Apple are really fighting for a certain feature to be available to the second-gen iPhone users; over-the-air music downloads. Now, this is not entirely new – we can already download music wirelessly using iTunes, but this new deal would allow Apple to sell things like ringtones and other content also over the air, all using 3G.

Sounds neat, but according to the rumour, the record companies involved in the yet-to-be-finalised-and-entirely-speculated deal are asking for a higher premium for tracks than if you were to download them via traditional ways. Hum.

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